loyment of thousands of soldiers and a strong naval presence in the Persian Gulf region to deter possible aggression by Saddam Hussein's Iraq or the Islamic fundamentalist regime in Iran, and to mediate the conflict between Israel and Syria in Lebanon.
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The belief that the end of the Cold War would dramatically alter United States interests in foreign affairs is mistaken. The Cold War itself actually served the American purpose within the grand scheme of its internationalist agenda. After World War II the United States was committed to a policy that was described in a 1950 National Security Council document. The report called for the creation of a global environment in which the American system would
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